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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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    Cool story, too bad it’s bullshit

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      Check the sources in this thread. It’s not. Listen, I dont want Trump and his bullshit in that country. But just looking at the facts here, dude is a dictator. The country has suffered for it. It won’t improve with a Trump puppet regime, that’s for sure.

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        The problem is thinking you can have fair elections under extreme duress from sanctions. The whole purpose of those sanctions is to destroy as much as possible the democratic aspect, as the US itself admits.

        From the official Office of the Historian US Gvt website, a key document regarding the logic behind the embargo in Cuba:

        The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). […]

        Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate.

        Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause.

        The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship.

        If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.

        The entire point of the blockade in Cuba, and by extension Venezuela, is that the people DO support their government, and the ONLY way to make them waver in their support is to make them literally starve.

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        I checked, the sources on this post all either agree with me or are dogshit

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          These agree with you? Funny because they came from my OG post. Are you saying you agree Maduro is a dictator now? Lol. Regardless, you can have a position against Trump going into the country ( I do) but still realize that the dude is dogshit for the country.

          https://directoriolegislativo.org/en/maduro-began-his-third-term-amid-fraud-allegations/

          https://www.oas.org/en/IACHR/jsForm/?File=%2Fen%2Fiachr%2Fmedia_center%2FPReleases%2F2025%2F007.asp

          https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/venezuela-s-2024-election-crisis-unveiling-electoral-fraud-repression-and-the-erosion-of-civil-li

          https://latinoamerica21.com/en/venezuela-from-fraudulent-elections-to-clandestine-elections/

          https://www.wlrn.org/americas/2025-07-28/human-rights-watch-venezuelas-maduro-regime-employs-systematic-repression-against-critics

          https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/americas/south-america/venezuela/report-venezuela/

          https://democratic-erosion.org/2025/04/17/populism-and-authoritarianism-in-venezuela/

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            Lol no those are dogshit, might as well just say “the CIA told me so” and get out your clown makeup

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